It makes a lot of sense, if you think about it
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Experts Confirm: Icelandic Faultline Has Awakened After 800 Years.
19 December 2023 eruption. ( Kristinn Magnusson/AFP/Getty Images)
A volcanic eruption that has engulfed homes in an Icelandic fishing port confirms that a long-dormant faultline running under the country has woken up, threatening to belch out lava with little warning for years to come, an expert warned on Tuesday.
Glowing lava swallowed several homes on Sunday at the edge of the town of Grindavik, southwest of the capital Reykjavik.
The fishing town was mostly evacuated due to threat of an eruption last month and the most recent volcanic activity has since eased, authorities in the North Atlantic nation said on Monday.
The island straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a crack in the ocean floor separating the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.
Sunday’s eruption was the fifth in fewer than three years on the Reykjanes peninsula, which had not previously seen one in centuries.
‘Earthrise’ Christmas Eve 1968
The Blue Marble
A sign at the Harvard-Yale football game reads: “Exchange each hostage for 100 Pro-Hamas Harvard Students & Faculty.” pic.twitter.com/Feo6MsVQEe
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) November 18, 2023
By the way, that’s “Mad Maxie” Representative Maxine Waters
There’s more people behind the cameras than in front.
Gun violence prevention activists showed up to the @NRA headquarters today to say this:
Schools should not be war zones. Our blood is on your hands. pic.twitter.com/c489S9qNmx
— March For Our Lives ☮️🟧 (@AMarch4OurLives) August 17, 2023
A few seconds after the detonation of ‘Little Boy‘ over Hiroshima.
NEW: SIG SAUER MCX SPEAR CONSUMER VARIANT OF THE ARMY’S XM7 RIFLE
SIG Sauer this week officially introduced the version of the military’s new Next Generation rifle that won’t require talking to a recruiter.
Last April, the New Hampshire-based firearms giant made headlines around the globe by pulling down the award for the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons, a series of 6.8mm rifles and light machine guns and their companion suppressors that are planned to replace the current 5.56 NATO small arms in front line service. The rifle, originally introduced as the XM5 and recently renamed the XM7, is based on the company’s gas-piston action MCX platform and uses SIG’s in-house developed SLX suppressor system.
While the as-issued XM7 currently being sent to the Army runs a standard 15.3-inch barrel (as measured over its muzzle device) and SIG released to the public a limited run of suppressed 13-inch barreled commemoratives last year that required two tax stamps, the MCX Spear will be fully NFA-compliant in at least most of its variants.
And you thought Chick-fil-A traffic was bad…….
I’d be ashamed to try and call this a ‘Technical’…..
You can’t make this up
Now that’s a selfie